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J. c. GILARDONE STOCKING HOLDING FRAME FOR EMBROIDERING MACHINES Feb. 5, 192

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrn G. GILARDQNE, a citizen of the Republic of Switzerland, residing at Reading, in the county of Berks and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stocking-Holding Frames for Embroidering Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in stocking holding frames for embroidering machines, and the object in the present invention is to provide a frame adapted to receive and hold a seamless stocking while the stocking is being embroidered at two opposite points, as for instance, the embroidering thereon of clocks.

Heretofore it has been the custom, when embroidering seamless stockings, to cut the stocking for a great part of its length, open it, and stretch it securely, in open position, on a frame, and, after embroidering, it was necessary to again sew up the severed portion.

This operation is costly, and the resultant product is not satisfactory, in that a seam is left along the sole and up a great portion of the leg of the stocking.

I have overcome these objections by making a frame with open front and rear spaces, so that the stocking may be slipped over the top of the frame, held thereon while being embroidered, first on one side and then on the other, and when removed from the frame the stocking is completed and in its original seamless form.

The invention is more fully described in the following specification and clearly illus trated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a front elevational view of my frame.

Figure 2 is a side elevational view thereof.

Figure 3 is a sectional view on line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Figure 4 is a detail view showing the clamping arms.

The numeral 1 designates the body of the frame which consists of two vertical uprights forming the sides, joined together at the top by a right angled portion 2 and provided at the bottom with two cross plates 3, one at the front and one at the rear. The uprights are each provided with a hook 4 at the lower extremity, which hooks project from the sides thereof, and with downwardly extending pins 5.

The numeral 10 designates the cap for the frame, adapted to fit over the top thereof after the stocking has been slipped over the upright members and this cap carries two oppositely disposed clamping arms 11, de pending therefrom and lying normally against the outer sides of the uprights, while their lower extremities are adapted to engage and be held in the hooks 4, thus securely holding the cap in position on the frame, and the stocking securely in position thereon.

Then the stocking is thus secured to the frame, the front and rear sides of the frame, covered by the stocking, will present to the embroidering needle, the surfaces to be embroidered, and the hollow box-like frame will permit the shuttle to operate on the inside thereof, while the needle is presented to the stocking surface from the outside.

In practice, the frame is removed from the machine frame after one side has been embroidered, and reversed, to present the opposite side of the stocking to the needle.

The depending pins on the frame are intended to position the frame on the machine, and the cap is provided with a centrally disposed lug adapted for engagement by any suitable holding device whereby the entire frame may be held securely in position While embroidering.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. In a stocking holding frame for embroidering machines, a body portion having open front and rear spaces, a removable cap, a pair of oppositely disposed clamping arms carried by the cap, said body being adapted to receive a stocking and hold it for embroidering through said open spaces and a pair of depending arms for holding the stocking in position thereon.

2. A stocking holding frame comprising a body comprising two uprights and a pair of cross-plates joining them together at the bottom, thus forming front and rear openings. with means for holding a stocking stretched over said frame so that two opposite portions of the stocking may be embroidered, a cap for the frame and a pair of clamping arms carried by the cap and a pair of hooks adapted for engagement by the arms, said 5 stantially rectangular form, having open stocking may be held in positi arms being adapted to clamp the stocking on cap adapted to fit over t he top thereof, and 10 the frame and hold it against turning. a palr of depending clamping arms, carried 3. A stocking holdin frame for embroidby the cap, and whose lower ends are adapted ering machines, comprising a body of subfor engagement by said hooks, whereby a on on the front and rear portions, a pair of hooks 10- frame while presenting two opposite points 15 dated at opposite points in close proximity thereof to an embroidering needle. to its lower end, a pair of positioning pins In testimony whereof I afiix my signature. depending from the lower end of the body, a JOSEPH C. GILARDONE. 

